TECH & AI
“ AI has no patience . When a project happens , it needs to happen immediately , so time-to-market is really important ”
LEWIS WHITE , VICE PRESIDENT , ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE – EUROPE , COMMSCOPE
“ It means we can provision raw materials like optical fibre cable and we can programme the capacity . We ’ ve also been training the integrated community , developing specialist courses to help them understand Gen AI in the data centre .”
As a result of these efforts , CommScope is realising the benefits of AI across the European data centre market already .
“ AI drastically reduces the time to provide a result ,” Lewis adds . “ One of the benefits we focus heavily on is enabling the larger companies to have AI clusters that the rest of the industry can then procure .”
Making sure AI is sustainable A major pitfall of AI is its energy and power demands . Particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic , plenty of larger companies were caught out by their lack of sustainability as their supply chains were not diverse enough .
“ Data centres are really challenged by AI , because they significantly drive up the power demand of a data centre , or the equipment , significantly ,” Lewis comments . “ But AI has the ability to augment lots of things in sustainability , in terms of being able to analyse situations to optimise things like your manufacturing processes .
“ AI is a double-edged sword . It comes with a price , which is
140 February 2025